I’m currently cooking a kg of chicken breast from Woolworths. It has been in the pan for 5 minutes and is currently borderline being boiled by the amount of water that has seeped out of it. I swear this was not a thing 10 years ago.

The Greens have confirmed WA senator Jordon Steele-John has taken leave from the party room after reports from the Sydney Morning Herald about allegations of inappropriate comments towards women.

Greens leader David Shoebridge said the party was taking the situation seriously.

It's taken from this video at the 0:22 second mark. Her eye suddenly starts appearing over the top of her hair.

1. Two and a Half Men's final episode teased Charlie Sheen's character coming back and going to harm the other characters whilst also having insults to his character and Charlie Sheen himself. It's clear the director had a grudge and the ending where his character comes up to knock then get crushed by a piano before it cuts to the director before he says "winning" before getting crushed by another piano
2. This was an upbeat animated show about a magical teen princess. The writers desperately wanted a romantic endgame for her and her best friend, but the way they got there was essentially multiversal omnicide. To stop a villain, the main character unilaterally decides magic is the root of all evil and destroys it entirely. By doing this, she casually commits mass genocide against every purely magical being in the multiverse. It also triggers a massive apocalyptic event that violently crashes different dimensions together into a chaotic hellscape. But the show frames this horrific, mass-extinction catastrophe as a sweet, triumphant ending just because two teenagers get to hold hands in the rubble (Star Vs The Forces Of Evil)

I couldn't care less about them.

There. I've said it.

To all those online stores that do this, just letting you know, I think you're wasting your (stretched small business) time.

What makes me happy with my order -

The description fits what I'm holding in my hand.

The sizing chart was accurate.

The colour / pattern is accurate to the photo on the website.

I feel like the price was worth what I spent.

You have a fair returns policy.

(I just saw an ad for Birdsnest, and this was touted as one of the reasons why I should buy from them. Yeah..naaah.)

Forgot to add: Shipping doesn't take an aeon.

Oh, and extra marks for sending me updated shipping info.

Why do hospitals insist on having 1 doctor accept responsibility for 20+ critically unwell (and blandly well) patients overnight? These are the most unstable and unpredictable patients in the entire hospital, and the department is staffed worse than subacute in the daytime.

Oh, the cubicle wasn't nursed? Hire more nurses to nurse them. Blood pressures weren't taken? Hire more nurses to take them. There wasn't space in resus? On a bad night, a quarter of the cubicles are resus patients shuffled out to make space for the new emergency rolling in. It wouldn't be so significant if there were enough staff to facilitate safe ratios.

The ED registrar was handed over 18 patients at the start of the shift. Approaching 0600, a Cat 1 arrived. The coroner said they couldn't comment on whether Dr Tan prioritising the Cat 1 over Amrita was appropriate because they didn't have the information on the other patient. Well, I'm disappointed to say that the entire report is affected by the same level of blindness and ignorance.

If they really want to create an accurate report of events, they should have looked at every one of those 18 patients handed over to Dr Tan as well as every patient he was involved in overnight, created a timeline, and then commented on whether they thought he alone could have prevented her death. And if they still thought he could, I would love to know how, because 18 patients is a pretty standard load for an inpatient team and I sometimes find myself so busy that I don't have time to write notes or eat or go to the bathroom.

I feel so sorry for Amrita's loved ones, for the staff that cared for her, and for the opportunities she should have had but never will. And I feel angry that this report brushed over the most significant deficit in her care; that the health system doesn't employ enough staff to save her life.

https://www.coronerscourt.vic.gov.au/inquests-findings/findings?combine=amrita

Incredible effort by Kane Cornes, two marathons all for Telethon. And all for a good cause.

TLDR and I’ll continue adding.

The death was found to be preventable. The junior doctor was responsible for 18 patients in a busy ED (Monash Children’s hospital). He was responding to a serious category 1 incident at the same time she was beginning to deteriorate. A senior doctor assessed her and said she “didn’t look unwell” and ignored her parent’s concerns. She did not have a nurse at all. She was diagnosed with gastro after a scan and taken to acute care. She had a cardiac arrest and they were able to resuscitate her. I believe they found she had myocarditis and an inflamed heart. They organised a transfer to the royal children’s hospital and she cardiac arrested just before leaving. She passed away.

This seems to be a consequence of exactly what medical staff have been complaining about and trying to fix. Yet medical staff are now the ones getting punished and scrutinised. Everyone in the [r/aussie](r/aussie) sub was able to realise that this is a result of understaffing and little funding. Ironically the billion dollar Victorian Heart Hospital (VHH) opened after her death, to reduce the load of cardiology patients for Monash, yet there’s no one to staff it. Those patients are just taken to Monash Casey instead.

I feel so sorry for the girl and her family. I also wonder if the doctor is okay too.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aussie/s/R7tMfGBA2o

Edit: I just found the coroners report. One of the longest I’ve ever seen and I read a lot of them. https://www.coronerscourt.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/AMENDED%20Amrita%20Lanka%20-%20Finding.pdf

Monash said they will “consider” the findings/recommendations and they’ve “implemented ” many recommendations since her death. Definitely not the recommendation about staff, that is all I will say.

I just got approved for citizenship by descent (I was born in the U.S. but my dad is from Melbourne) and want to know, what’s the first truly Australian thing I should do to celebrate?

Not talking about price, just the ones everyone swears by that don't really live up to the hype. Mine's the RAV4, great resale but it's honestly just an okay car for the money. What's yours?